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          • zoonosis
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          • A zoonosis is any disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. Animals thus play an essential role in maintaining zoonotic infections in nature. Zoonoses may be bacterial, viral, or parasitic, or may involve unconventional agents. As well as being a public health problem, many of the major zoonotic diseases prevent the efficient production of food of animal origin and create obstacles to international trade in animal products. WHO
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          • Just to give an example how zoonosis can adversely impact the economy of a country- the emergence of SARS in 2003 has the cost the world economy over USD 50 billion on account of medical treatment and loss of revenue associated with abrupt halt of tourism industry. - WHO by
          • These studies might provide new surveillance opportunities by allowing improved targeting of the key wildlife species most likely to harbour the next emerging zoonosis. - NCBI by
          • The highest zoonosis burden, they found, occurs in just a few countries, particularly Ethiopia, Nigeria and India. - Live Science by
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          • Enfermedad o infección que se da en los animales y que es transmisible a las personas en condiciones naturales. Diccionario de la Lengua Española (RAE) - by Giuliana Maltempo
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          • Existen argumentos científicos más que suficientes para probar que el SARS-CoV-2 es una zoonosis vírica originada en murciélagos y luego transmitida a través de otros mamíferos a los seres humanos. - theconversation.com by Giuliana Maltempo
          • Las zoonosis constituyen un grupo de enfermedades de los animales que son transmitidas al hombre por contagio directo con el animal enfermo, a través de algún fluido corporal como orina o saliva, o mediante la presencia de algún intermediario como pueden ser los mosquitos u otros insectos. También pueden ser contraídas por consumo de alimentos de origen animal que no cuentan con los controles sanitarios correspondientes, o por consumo de frutas y verduras crudas mal lavadas. Las zoonosis pueden ser causadas por diferentes agentes, tales como parásitos, virus o bacterias. - Ministerio de Salud, Argentina by Giuliana Maltempo
          • Existen múltiples enfermedades que forman parte de la zoonosis. La fiebre amarilla y el dengue, por ejemplo, se transmiten al humano a partir de la acción de un insecto que actúa como vector del virus. - definición.de by Giuliana Maltempo
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          • مَرَضُ حَيَوانِيٌّ المَصْدَر _ مرض حيواني المنشأ
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          • المرض حيواني المنشأ أو حيواني المصدر أو مرض مشترك : ‏ هو المرض المعدي الذي يسرى في الحالة الطبيعية بين الحيوانات الفقارية البرية أو الأليفة ويمكن أن ينتقل منها إلى الإنسان. ويمكن أن يكون الإنسان المصاب مصدراً لعدوى الناس الآخرين في بعض الأمراض مثل الطاعون، أما في بعضها الآخر فلا ينتقل المرض من الإنسان المصاب، كما في داء البروسيلات. wikipedia - by Ebrahim Mohammed
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          • أهم مسببات الأمراض الحيوانية المصدر التي تسبب الأمراض التي تنقلها الأغذية هي ايشرشيا كولاي و كامبيليباكتر، وكالكيفيريدي - wikipedia by Ebrahim Mohammed
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          • zoonoza
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          • Zoonoze (grč. ζῷον: živo biće, životinja + -oza) su bolesti ili infekcije koje se prirodno prenose sa životinja kralježnjaka na čovjeka i obratno. Enciklopedija.hr - by Elio Verbanac
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          • Uzročnici zoonoza se prvenstveno nalaze među životinjama ali se pod određenim okolnostima mogu prenijeti i na čovjeka. Izvori širenja zoonoza mogu biti i domaće i divlje životinje. - HAPIH by Elio Verbanac
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          • zoonoza
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          • Zoonoze (grč. ζῷον: živo biće, životinja + -oza) su bolesti ili infekcije koje se prirodno prenose sa životinja kralježnjaka na čovjeka i obratno. Enciklopedija.hr - by Elio Verbanac
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          • Uzročnici zoonoza se prvenstveno nalaze među životinjama ali se pod određenim okolnostima mogu prenijeti i na čovjeka. Izvori širenja zoonoza mogu biti i domaće i divlje životinje. - HAPIH by Elio Verbanac
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